Sentences with phrase «undermined by the pressures»

«We can not let the progress we have made together and the promise of a decent life for all those who work hard, be undermined by pressure from multi-billion dollar companies like Uber who are taking a page out of the Trump playbook and turning good jobs into bad jobs,» the letter states.

The marriage was in trouble — undermined by the pressures of academic life and a failed course of fertility treatments — and it ended soon afterward.

Not exact matches

Comey caved to political pressure when he decided not to prosecute Clinton — which paved the way for her candidacy — but hedged his bets by criticizing her behavior and later publicly stating the investigation had reopened — which «may have fatally undermined her campaign,» French said.

A full - on globalization backlash could undermine hopes for shifting away from secular stagnation by derailing the nascent recovery in investment spending and productivity growth in the U.S. Global trade tends to boost productivity through fostering of competitive pressures, product specialization, scale economies, global value chains and technology transfer.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

When Christians spend the Christmas season frantically stressed by consumerist pressures, we echo the values of the empire that Jesus sought to undermine.

Her argument is that because American women are being unduly pressured to breast - feed their babies, they are becoming «enslaved» by the «little masters,» as Badinter describes nursing children, which in turn undermines the status of American women in general, leading to many negative social and economic outcomes.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

Given the Fabian society has a good record on electoral reform, perhaps you might take action / put pressure on the likes of Tom Harris who undermined Lib - Lab negotiations by saying he'd never accept anything other than FPTP.

By preventing Trump from meeting the Queen, therefore, the UK would have undermined the ability to assert pressure.

Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti will claim later today that the role of the police force has been continually undermined by political pressure.

His leadership was undermined by ongoing struggles with Sinn Fein over IRA disarmament, with internal UUP pressure for a tougher stance against the republicans.

However, Labour's new policy measures were undermined by reported criticism from Cruddas, the man in charge of the party's policy review, which was taped at a semi-private meeting of the left - leaning Compass pressure group and passed to the Sunday Times.

As most readers of this essay surely know from experience, anything that undermines that motivation — pressure to produce, meddling by management, fear of sanctions, anxiety, resentment, even gratuitous performance bonuses — worsens work performance.

Or would they think that high - stakes testing was directed at them: limiting autonomy in the classroom, placing excessive pressure on students and teachers, and undermining professionalism by assuming that teachers» own judgments of students» performance were wrong or inadequate?

Leadership of SEND is undermined by accumulating pressures of funding restraint, staff shortages, accountability measures and rapid policy change.

Not to add to an author's sense of victimization, but it has to be an additional pressure to labor under the weight of the attitude, held by many in the fading traditional publishing apparatus, that the digital disruption has somehow attacked or unfairly undermined them.

In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»

The integrity of a governmental review of mining contracts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is being undermined by a lack of transparency and pressure to rush through the process as fast as possible, Global Witness said in a new briefing published today.

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George Osborne demands massive cuts to windfarm subsidies PM's «greenest government ever» claim undermined by chancellor's move, which follows pressure from Tory MPs

Many legislatures have been pressured to undermine the civil jury system by restricting access to the courts and limiting juries» power and authority.

The artificial deadline and environment created by the Divorce Hotel undermines the standards and goals of the mediation process, as couples might feel undue pressure to reach an agreement in the short, two - day weekend.